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You don't need Resilience for its disorientation protection, though as I recall (been a long time since I've played my Regen), it's enough to protect you from disorientation when you rez, and I believe I've heard enough with Integration to protect from Romulus when he rezzes.

That's not why you take it, though. You take it because you want what resistance you can get so that you're not quite as fragile, to buy you that extra fraction of a second when reaching for one of your clicks. It's not so good that you can't skip it, but I'd take it. It would only get slots if I was swimming in them, though. Put your Steadfast Protection there like PleaseRecycle says and call it good.

For everyone finding Super Reflexes to be squishy, have you left it as a one-trick pony? Yes, if you hit the soft cap while doing nothing else to improve your survivability, you won't be great. Add hit points, Tough, and a heal or massive regeneration and you should find that it's not even close to squishy.

Here's mine taking on an AV with no temps no insps while surrounded by a spawn of 15 L52 Nemesis. This particular fight was also a lesson in just how useful the passive resistances could be, even when fighting an AV. This was in I13 I believe. I'd be significantly more survivable if I rebuilt for I20. How tough does a set need to be to not be referred to as squishy?

#1: While I agree that the set should have -regen resistance, Regen hardly has only one trick. Reconstruction is a heal, not regeneration. Dull Pain is a heal, and having huge hit points helps even when you're not regenerating. Moment of Glory is defense and resistance. To this you can add Tough, good defense, and Shadow Meld. There's no reason for having your regeneration shut off being a death sentence.

#2: I'm guessing that Moment of Glory should be your go to power right after clicking Revive. Fifteen seconds of invincibility should give you time to toggle up and be back in the fight. I wouldn't know because I never took Revive. I prefer spending my power picks on powers that keep me from dying in the first place, though I mostly solo so I have a lot of control over strategy, pacing and difficulty level that I wouldn't have on a team.

As for Regen being a clicky, reactive set, very different from its origins, you're right. Now, what exactly do you mean when you say "Let's see it fixed"? You want all the clicks to be toggles or something? Maybe you want -recharge resistance, since you complain about -recharge?

Dark Melee is a great choice for survivability due to the heal. But these days it's easier than ever to add Aid Self to a build, so that's a practical alternative much of the time if you can stomach the tricorder. I like that Dark Melee's heal is non-interruptable and doesn't interrupt your attacks. On the other hand, you need a target, and it has to hit.

I like Dual Blades, but also for consideration is Katana, which pumps out equivalent DPS at lower recharge, freeing up other aspects of your build, plus Build Up means the damage is more front-loaded. Divine Avalanche can also make for smoother leveling. Dual Blades, though, has a cone as part of its DPS chain, which is an advantage for taking down whole spawns, so I'd say it puts out more damage in practice.

But then, if you want to take spawns apart quickly, you can always go with something like Spines or Electric.

Really, one nice thing about Super Reflexes is that as long as you're willing to take Aid Self, it doesn't need anything from the primary, and you can pretty much pick whatever primary satisfies your other goals for the build.

When I don't play melee, I like Blasters. I didn't like my Dominator, even if I somehow got to 50. I didn't care for Warshades or Peacebringers, though I never got one to a high level. I've never even tried a Defender or Controller. I might like Corrupters, but haven't rolled one yet. I can't see playing a Mastermind - I hate the AI enough already.

Regen isn't the secondary everyone lusts after these days, but just because you can't or shouldn't soft cap a set doesn't mean it sucks. Soft capping is great, but it's not the only way to stay alive. I feel kind of bad about this, because I've been a soft-cap evangelist for years, but now I think the message has been taken too far.

Recharge is handled in several primary ways:

• high recharge in your important click powers
• Hasten
• lots of recharge set bonuses
• Spiritual Core Paragon in your Alpha slot (which also boosts all healing and regeneration powers)

Oh, something else you may have not realized - you don't need knockback protection IOs. Integration comes with all the knockback protection and resistance you will ever need.

Depends on what you mean by jack of all trades, I guess. You can use it as a defense machine, and I do think that's when it shines the most. But if you don't need the defense, you can turn it into a DPS machine. And though hardly great, it has passable AoE if you take both attacks, and you could back that up with something like Fire Ball if you wanted. It has burst damage fairly well covered since it uses a Build Up power instead of a Follow Up power. So it can meet a handful of survival and damage requirements. The same could be said of many primaries, though.

On a Regen, you generally want recharge, recharge, defense, and more recharge. In this case you have very little recharge, and not that much defense even if it's what you were focused on. It's nearly impossible to soft cap a Regen Scrapper, and doesn't appear to be worth the trade off in any case. What IS possible is to pick up Shadow Meld and cycle it and Moment of Glory to have on-demand soft-capped defense most of the time. And sticking with the general recommendation for a Regen, high recharge is what makes that possible.

Not that you want to spend all your time cycling high activation time powers, so you want a lot to back that up, and having higher smashing/lethal defense is probably a good plan. I agree with shooting for 32.5% smashing/lethal to be one purple away from the soft cap. It doesn't soft cap against all enemies, but certainly against a lot of them.

Doctored Wounds is probably your go-to set for Reconstruction and Dull Pain, and is probably usually five-slotted. With any sort of decent recharge bonuses, you should have perma Dull Pain, which isn't to say you hit it every time it's up, as that wastes the heal, but it is always either up and buffing you or available. At that point, we tend to not worry much about hit point bonuses, because they'll often just take you over the hit point cap and literally do you no good. They're nice while Dull Pain is down, as they give you a little more time to click on it, but not great, so we usually focus on other things.

And in case you weren't aware, you can only have five of any particular named set bonus. In your build, for instance, one of your 1.5% hit point bonuses doesn't count. You can see this by viewing active sets, and it'll highlight it in red. But you may know this, and just were after something else, as my builds sometimes have one or two over the cap bonuses.

Well, it's a build I'd play, but have decided against since I'm already playing something I consider at least as good or better. That's almost the same boat you're in here. And yeah, soloing the collection phase seems like the worst you face in practice, at least now that everyone knows you need to take out the adds in BAF before they get insane to hit.

On defense, what you may be missing is that the way we calculate survivability essentially seeks out weaknesses. Your weakness, if you aren't using Phase Shift for long periods, is when you cycle around to where Barrier is at 5% and both Moment of Glory and Shadow Meld are recharging. At that point you're just a low to moderate defense Regen - nothing horrible, but nothing great, and it drags the whole thing down. To a lesser extent, you have an issue with Shadow Meld and the +5% tail end of Barrier, which...

Oh, good grief, MY BAD. Somehow I'd gotten Combat Jumping toggled off. That had you shy of 59% defense when Shadow Meld was up and taking nearly twice as much damage as you'd actually take. So never mind about that. I'm in too much of a rush to go back and recalculate, but your numbers would be higher than I indicated. Sorry about that.

When the incarnate to hit was confirmed at 64%, it seemed like the majority were crying doom for the defense sets. I cried the opposite - the defense sets could easily (Super Reflexes) or not so easily (Shield Defense) get their defense to 59%. Super Reflexes and Shield Defense were going to be great against the incarnate content. It was the non-defensive sets that were going to suffer. This was my attempt to compensate for my Katana/Regen, though Katana is a bit of a cheat in terms of making any general point about the viability of the Regen secondary.

Also, I didn't anticipate just how many defense buffs were going to be flying around, making the 59% target a bit unnecessary, and making non-defense sets more viable than I expected.

For Super Reflexes, particularly without Aid Self, I'd probably build for 59% without Barrier, and then use Rebirth.

Well, it's an interesting approach, and I don't mean "bad", just interesting, because it kind of works out. The build focuses on MELEE defense, which at first seems a little strange, but what it gives you is the ability to soft cap melee and lethal plus a little wiggle room with one Divine Avalanche. That's very nice to have, and is at least arguably nicer to have than, say, splitting that defensive bonus between ranged and AoE as would be my tendency. It'll also help you keep your DPS from suffering too much. It has the Achilles' Heel in the right place to help with DPS as well. Enzymes are very pricey, but the build won't suffer much if you instead toss in a Luck of the Gambler defense, or even a regular defense IO, or saved the slot to put somewhere else. Obliteration is also a bit pricey last I looked, but at least they aren't purples. It has a Kismet, which I definitely want to see since it doesn't have Tactics. Resilience is a good home for the Steadfast Protection.

It seems like it could stand some cleaning up. I'm guessing you could do better for the price, or lower the price without affecting performance. But it's not bad, and I'm not much of a budget builder, so I'm not sure how to approach it.